Wootton Rivers
Wiltshire

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales
described Wootton Rivers like this:

WOOTTON-RIVERS, a parish in Pewsey district, Wilts; on the Kennet and Avon canal and on the Mid-Wilts railway, 3 miles ENE of Pewsey r. station. It has a post-office under Marlborough. Acres, 1,179. Real property, £2,021. Pop., 444. Houses, 93. There are an iron foundry and an agricultural implement factory. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £379.* Patrons, St. John's College, Cambridge, and Brasenose College, Oxford. The church is good; and there are a national school, and charities £15.

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for administrative units.
For the best overall sense of how the area containing
Wootton Rivers has changed, please see our
redistricted information for the modern district of
Kennet.
More detailed statistical data are available under
Units and statistics, which includes both administrative units
covering Wootton Rivers and units named after it.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth,
History of Wootton Rivers, in Kennet and Wiltshire | Map and description,
A Vision of Britain through Time.